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Recently I've managed to to covert the missus to Linux and she couldn't have had the worst possible start, it began when her PC running Win XP packed up with motherboard failure so I had an old PC lying around I set up for her as a stop gap until I got her something better it actually had fairly decent spec and run PM4 beautifully except for a network error that was just impossible to fix, then I got her another PC (second hand) installed PM4 and it ran beautifully everything worked and she was well happy, untill last night when the screen froze so she hit the off button switched off the PC and switched on again only to find it stuck on the Peppermint splash screen and go no further, strangely enough a similar thing happened to me with my PC shortly after installing PM4 for the first time and only a full re-installation would put it right, I'm hoping I don't have to in this case

EDITI thought this might be a graphics issue so I removed the nvidia graphics card and switched over to onboard and at first i thought it was gonna boot because It went passed the splash screen the cursor popped up then a floating box appeared saying "no signal input" indicating it's not getting a graphics signal it would then alternate between the cursor (which I can move) and the no signal message

any help would be much appreciated

Many thanks

Graeme

« Last Edit: August 17, 2013, 09:25:58 am by Emegra »

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs, then you're not quite grasping the situation

ok believe it or not it refused to boot into a PM4 live session, all I got was garbled graphics so I tried with the onboard and it got past the splash screen but then all I got was alternating cursor and a black screen, I did manage to boot into a Linux Lite live session, so here's the out put you asked for